Claims
- 1. A recombinant poxvirus containing therein and expressing coding DNA from feline infectious peritonitis virus wherein the poxvirus is
- (i) a vaccinia virus wherein J2R, B13R+B14R, A26L, A56R, C7L-K1L and I4L are deleted from the virus, or a thymidine kinase gene, a hemorrhagic region, an A type inclusion body region, a hemagglutinin gene, a host range region, and a large subunit, ribonucleotide reductase are deleted from the virus; or is NYVAC; or, the poxvirus is
- (ii) canarypox which is ALVAC.
- 2. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 1 wherein the poxvirus is the canarypox virus.
- 3. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 2 which is vCP262, vCP261A, vCP282, vCP281, vCP283B, vCP315.
- 4. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 1 wherein the feline infectious peritonitis virus DNA encodes M; N; S; S1; S2; S3; M+N; or M, N, and the three versions of S; S1, S2, S3.
- 5. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 4 wherein the DNA encodes M.
- 6. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 4 wherein the DNA encodes N.
- 7. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 4 wherein the DNA encodes S.
- 8. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 4 wherein the DNA encodes S1.
- 9. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 4 wherein the DNA encodes S2.
- 10. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 4 wherein the DNA encodes S3.
- 11. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 4 wherein the DNA encodes M+N.
- 12. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 1 wherein the poxvirus is the vaccinia virus.
- 13. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 3 which is vCP262.
- 14. An immunological composition comprising the recombinant poxvirus as claimed in claim 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12 or 13, and a carrier.
- 15. A method for inducing an immunological response in a host comprising administering an effective amount of the recombinant poxvirus as claimed in anyone of claims 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12 or 13 to induce an immunological response.
- 16. A method for inducing an immunological response comprising administering an effective amount of the composition as claimed in claim 14.
- 17. A method for expressing a gene product in vitro comprising infecting a cell with the recombinant poxvirus as claimed in claim 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12 or 13 and culturing the infected cells under conditions to express said gene product.
- 18. The recombinant poxvirus of claim 1 wherein said poxvirus is ALVAC.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
Reference is made to allowed application Ser. No. 08/105,483, filed Aug. 12, 1993, which in turn is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/847,951, filed Mar. 6, 1992, which in turn is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/713,967, filed Jun. 11, 1991, which in turn is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/666,056, filed Mar. 7, 1991, now allowed application Ser. No. 08/036,217, filed Mar. 24, 1993, and issued Nov. 15, 1994 as U.S. Pat. No. 5,364,773. Each of the aforementioned and above-referenced applications and patent are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
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